Fresh humiliation for Eurozone as China offers to bailout debt-ridden nations - Still too little too late

The Chinese Sovereign wealth fund takes a break from buying the world's rare earth metals to focus on buying global influence.

The Europeans should be careful about accepting China's offer...

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Source - UK Mail

China has said it is willing to bail out debt-ridden countries in the euro zone using its $2.7 trillion overseas investment fund.

In a fresh humiliation for Europe, Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu said it was one of the most important areas for China's foreign exchange investments.

The country has already approached struggling European countries with financial aid, including offering to buy Greece's debt in October and promising to buy $4 billion of Portuguese government debt.

Today Portugal had its credit rating downgraded by the Fitch Ratings agency amid mounting concerns over the country's ability to raise money in the markets to finance its hefty borrowings.

Fitch said it was reducing its rating on the country's debt by one notch to A+ from AA- and warned that further downgrades may be in the offing by maintaining its negative outlook.

'To have any discernible effect China will have to buy a lot more than 5billion euros if they expect to have any impact on the negative sentiment surrounding Europe,' said Michael Hewson, currency analyst at CMC Markets.

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